Beggar Quotes

No nation respects a beggar.

Grace finds us beggars but leaves us debtors.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

Better to be a beggar in freedom than to be forced into compromises against my conscience.

Beggars market their incapacity.

The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I just want to be nominated; beggars can't be choosers.

I would rather be a beggar and spend my money like a king, than be a king and spend money like a beggar.

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

A ragamuffin knows he's only a beggar at the door of God's mercy.

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince.

Africa must take the first steps into modernity on its own. There must be a change in mentality. We have to stop perceiving ourselves as beggars.

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Africans are taught to be beggars and not to be independent.

Choosers will be beggars if the begging's not their choosing.

He who begs timidly courts a refusal.

Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.

BEGGAR, n. One who has relied on the assistance of his friends.

Perhaps some have created their own difficulties but don't the rest of us do exactly the same things? Are we not all beggars?

Who's a prince or beggar in the grave?

They are but beggars that can count their worth.

If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.

Potter is piqued with potter, joiner with joiner, beggar begrudges beggar, and singer singer.

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

If wishes were stories, beggars would read.

A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar.

The bashful beggar has an empty purse.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

Unhappiness makes beggars or accountants of us all.

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.